The Mysterious Mr Le Queux

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-58
Author(s):  
Roger T. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Early Career ◽  
World War ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Biographical Account ◽  
First World

This article presents what is widely considered to be the best biographical account of the life of the controversial popular author, journalist and amateur spy, William Le Queux. The article originally appeared in Soldiers of the Queen, the journal of the Victorian Military Society, and is reproduced here with their kind permission in order to bring it before a new audience. It documents Le Queux’s life, from the little that is known about his early career through to his high-profile involvement in defence scaremongering before and during the First World War to his subsequent lapse into postwar obscurity.

scholarly journals Ernest Harold Farmer 1890-1952

1952 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Early Career ◽  
World War ◽  
Surgical Skill ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Degree Of Disability ◽  
First World ◽  
Substantial Degree

Ernest Harold Farmer was born at Longford, Derbyshire, on 3 March 1890, and was educated at the Municipal School, Derby, and University College, Nottingham. He studied chemistry under Professor F. S. Kipping, F.R.S., and took his first degree in 1911. His early career gave no indication that he was to become one of the country’s leading research chemists, and on graduation he entered the teaching profession, holding posts successively at Daventry Grammar School and at the Municipal College, Bury, Lancashire. The first world war interrupted his career; he volunteered for active service, and in 1915 was gazetted to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, serving with them until his demobilization in 1919. In 1917, at the battle of Messines, he was severely injured, and spent the next two years in hospital and nursing home, while surgeons struggled to save his right arm. Surgical skill, aided by Farmer’s own perseverance and courage, finally gained a substantial victory, but a substantial degree of disability remained throughout his life. The extent of this was realized by few, but it was a fact that when lecturing he found it necessary to wear an elbow support to enable him to raise his arm to write on a blackboard. In view of the delicate experimental work which he carried out, it is hard to realize that he never recovered the full use of his right hand. Incidentally, his writing remained fluent and legible, and it was not unduly difficult to decipher one of his manuscripts, even when it had been subjected to the repeated editing which always resulted from his ceaseless striving for perfection.

The Contribution of Archaeology to WWI Commemoration in Flanders

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-182
Author(s):  
Birger Stichelbaut ◽  
Jean Bourgeois ◽  
Guy De Mulder ◽  
Simon Verdegem ◽  
Wouter Gheyle
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
World War ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

When the First World War ended, the landscape had been transformed into a wasteland. Later, the population faced the challenge of rebuilding the region. Many traces of the war were then wiped out. Everywhere, the archaeological remains are slumbering in the soil, barely 30 cm deep and invisible to the visitors. It took a while before the remains of the war have been considered as archaeological heritage. It was not until 2002-2004 that professional archaeologists in Belgium began to show an interest in this special heritage. Since then, the importance of this archaeology has only increased and today it is part of mainstream archaeological research. Several initiatives built on the successful first commemorative year 2014 in Belgium, with record numbers of visitors in the Westhoek. During the commemorations, various archaeological projects were put in the spotlight and were picked up with great interest from the public. This chapter highlights a series of high-profile initiatives that shaped specific parts of the remembrance of the First World War in Belgium.

Socio-political and confessional preconditions of the birth of the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church in Western Ukraine (20-30 years of the twentieth century)

2000 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
R. Soloviy
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Religious Influences ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
First World

In the history of religious organizations of Western Ukraine in the 20-30th years of the XX century. The activity of such an early protestant denominational formation as the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church occupies a prominent position. Among UCRC researchers there are several approaches to the preconditions for the birth of the Ukrainian Calvinistic movement in Western Ukraine. In particular, O. Dombrovsky, studying the historical preconditions for the formation of the UREC in Western Ukraine, expressed the view that the formation of the Calvinist cell should be considered in the broad context of the Ukrainian national revival of the 19th and 20th centuries, a new assessment of the religious factor in public life proposed by the Ukrainian radical activists ( M. Drahomanov, I. Franko, M. Pavlik), and significant socio-political, national-cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the events of the First World War. Other researchers of Ukrainian Calvinism, who based their analysis on the confessional-polemical approach (I.Vlasovsky, M.Stepanovich), interpreted Protestantism in Ukraine as a product of Western cultural and religious influences, alien to Ukrainian spirituality and culture.

Ale na razie tu cisza” – fotografie sprzed katastrofy w wybranych zapisach literackich (Stefan Chwin, Ryszard Kapuściński, Wisława Szymborska)

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Magdalena Strąk
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
First World War ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
First World

The work aims to show a peculiar perspective of looking at photographs taken on the eve of the broadly understood disaster, which is specified in a slightly different way in each of the literary texts (Stefan Chwin’s autobiographical novel Krótka historia pewnego żartu [The brief history of a certain joke], a poem by Ryszard Kapuściński Na wystawie „Fotografia chłopów polskich do 1944 r.” [At an exhibition “The Polish peasants in photographs to 1944”] and Wisława Szymborska’s Fotografia z 11 września [Photograph from September 11]) – as death in a concentration camp, a general concept of the First World War or a terrorist attack. Upcoming tragic events – of which the photographed people are not yet aware – become for the subsequent recipient an inseparable element of reality contained in the frame. For the later observers, privileged with time perspective, the characters captured in the photograph are already victims of the catastrophe, which in reality was not yet recorded by the camera. It is a work about coexistence of the past and future in the field of photography.

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